At
present, I know of only one in-depth study to have been undertaken into
the MAY Family of Hampshire and Berkshire. In 1991, as part of my History
Degree at the University of Reading, I wrote a Dissertation entitled
"The MAY Family of North-East Hampshire and Mid-Berkshire
1630-1830". It was a study researched as part of a course
called "The Family in Early-Modern England". Most of the data
used had already been uncovered by my father over the previous thirty
years, however, I then tried to pull all this information together,
analyse it from a more social historical point of view and draw some
hitherto unconsidered conclusions. There are currently only three hard
copies of the original in existence. One is lodged at the University, I
have one and my cousin, Peter Stevens, has another. What follows is a
slightly updated version (2001) with varying illustrations. I hope it
makes for interesting reading.